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Wed Dec 5 23:19:10 CST 2001

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Hello, world!

This is Simon Cozens, managing editor of www.perl.com, here to
bring you the week's news and developments both in the Perl
world and on our own site.

* Perl at large.

Those In The Know will already know that the best way to install
modules from CPAN is to use the CPAN shell, "perl -MCPAN -e shell".
But they'll also probably know that the CPAN shell is quite quirky,
and occasionally gets very confused about things and tries to
install a new version of Perl for you. And those *really* in the
know will know that CPAN.pm is not code that any sane man or woman
would want to maintain. So Jos Boumans and his merry band have
taken up the challenge of creating an alternative. CPANPLUS is now
available for beta testing at the URL below; there's also a link
to a talk which explains what CPANPLUS is trying to do. Give it a
whirl, and send Jos your comments!

     http://japh.nu/cp/CPANPLUS-0.01.tar.gz
     http://japh.nu/cp/talk.html

Other than that, I'm afraid to say there's not very much going on
in the Perl world this week. Expect things to get more interesting
in the next few days, though - Perl 5.8.0 is steadily nearing
completion, and Parrot 0.0.3 is only a couple of days away.

* What's new on perl.com

Even once you've released and signed off a programming job, the
work almost certainly doesn't stop - it's a fact of life that
you'll spend more time maintaining code than you will developing
it. Anything that makes maintaining code easier is, therefore,
pretty obviously a good thing. Chromatic argues that one really
good way to ease the burden for yourself is to get into the habit
of writing decent tests for your code, and provides some good ways
to go about writing and managing them:

     http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2001/12/04/testing.html

Have a good holiday,
SC

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*** Featured Articles ***

An Introduction to Testing
chromatic explains why writing tests is good for your code, and
tells you how to go about it.

http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2001/12/04/testing.html

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Request Tracker
Do you ever forget what you're supposed to be doing today? Do you
have a million and one projects on the go, but no idea where you're
up to with them? I frequently get that, and I don't know how I'd
get anything at all done if it wasn't for Request Tracker. Robert
Spier explains how to use the open-source Request Tracker
application to organise teams working on common projects.

http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2001/11/28/request.html

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Lightweight Languages
Simon Cozens reports from this weekend's Lightweight Languages
workshop at the MIT AI labs, where leading language researchers
and implementors got together to chat about what they're up to.

http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2001/11/21/lightweight.html

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Parsing Protein Domains with Perl
James Tisdall, author of O'Reilly's Beginning Perl for
Bioinformatics, shows biologists how to program in Perl using
biological data, with downloadable code examples.

http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2001/11/16/perlbio2.html

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Create RSS channels from HTML news sites
Chris Ball shows us how to turn any ordinary news site into a
Remote Site Summary web service.

http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2001/11/15/creatingrss.html

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